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Aamir Yunus (Intel)

Aamir Yunus is a Senior Software Engineer in Enterprise Scale Enabling group at Intel Corporation. He joined Intel in 1999 after four years at Honeywell, Inc. He has extensive experience in performance optimization in a virtualized environment, specifically VMware ESX Server. He is the recipient of an Intel Achievement Award for the optimization of security algorithms on Intel processors. He earned his BSE in Computer Systems Engineering and MCS in Computer Science from Arizona State University in Tempe.

Starting a VM with small disk space - Modifying ESX Swap file location

By Aamir Yunus (Intel) (3 posts) on September 29, 2009 at 10:05 am
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Here is a solution from our Senior Engineers, Kshitij Doshi and Ashok Emani to a particular problem that we encounter every now and then: VMware will allow you to configure a huge amount of DRAM to a VM, but then won't let you start the VM because it does not know where to store bytes [...]

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Category: Virtualization

Installing VMware Tools on your VM Created Using ESXi

By Aamir Yunus (Intel) (3 posts) on March 30, 2009 at 10:22 am
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Have you ever seen the dreaded message while installing tools on a VM created on ESXi? “Unable to install VMware tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file “/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso.” A quick solution to this problem is: • Copy the .ISO file /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso from the same or a similar version of “ESX classic” on to your data [...]

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Category: Virtualization

Step by Step Guide on How to Enable VT-d and Perform Direct Device Assignment

By Aamir Yunus (Intel) (3 posts) on February 24, 2009 at 12:33 pm
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This guide shows step by step instructions on how to "direct assign" Intel 85276 NIC to a virtual machine using Intel's VT-d technology. For this guide I am using the following hardware and software: Supermicro X8DTN+ Server with Intel Core i7 X5570 processors, American Megatrends BIOS R1.1 VMware's ESX Server 4.0 as the hypervisor Microsoft Windows [...]

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Category: Parallel Programming, Virtualization